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Old Republic's Q2 Operating Revenue Drops $40 Million 07/28/2014
State: NA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
Old Republic International Corp. announced on Thursday that its operating revenues dropped $40.4 million, or 3.1%, between the second quarters of 2013 and 2014. The slowdown was due mostly to a $93.4 million reduction in Old Republic's title insurance lines, the company announced in a...Read More
 
 
OSHA Cites United Airlines for Safety Violations at Newark Airport 07/25/2014
State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance
United Airlines Inc. faces $101,300 in proposed federal fines for exposing its ground operations workers at the Newark International Airport to hazardous conditions, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced. Following an inspection in January, OSHA cited the airline for...Read More
 
 
OSHA Begins Weekend Inspections in Billings Area to Ensure Safety as Construction Activity Peaks 07/25/2014
Source: OSHA
State: MT | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance
As the construction industry goes to work repairing roof damage from a historic hailstorm in the Billings area in May, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is watching more closely to make sure that employers are protecting their workers against fall hazards. The administrati...Read More
 
 
Out-of-State Insurance Company Fined $40K in TDI Final Order 07/23/2014
Source: Texas Department of Insurance
State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
The Texas Department of Insurance issued 53 enforcement orders from Jan. 1 through April 25, with fines up to $40,000, according to a summary posted this week on its website. TDI’s largest penalty for a final order so far this year went to an Amelia, Ohio, entity that includes Ameri...Read More
 
 
OSHA Inspection after Fatality Leads to $194K in Proposed Fines 07/23/2014
State: WY | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance
State regulators in Wyoming cited a sugar plant for 39 health and safety violations at its facilities in Lovell and Torrington after a worker fatality. According to news reports, Lovell plant employee Anfesa Galaktionoff, 28, was killed in January when she fell through a floor opening at ...Read More
 
 
Orthopaedic Specialists Network Hires New Marketing Director 07/23/2014
Source: Greater Wilmington Business Journal
State: NC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
Orthopaedic Specialists of North Carolina has brought aboard a new marketing director. The group, which employs 13 doctors in eight locations throughout the state, announced in a press release that Susan Kirkendol will handle marketing and communications for the firm, according to a Tuesd...Read More
 
 
OSHA Adds Investigators to Tackle the State's High Oil & Gas Death Rate 07/22/2014
State: ND | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced that it has added investigators from around the country to focus on the unusually high death rate for workers in the state's oil and gas and construction industries. Of the 34 fatalities in those industries in the sta...Read More
 
 
OSHA Slaps Piqua Foundry Co. with 20 Violations, $57,140 in Fines 07/22/2014
Source: OSHA
State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance
A Piqua, Ohio, foundry company is facing 20 citations − including seven repeat violations − and $57,140 in federal fines after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration turned up respiratory and amputation hazards. Piqua Champion Foundry exposed nine of its workers to ...Read More
 
 
Officer's Surgery for Pacemaker Repairs Didn't Give Rise to New 'Date of Injury' 07/17/2014
State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
  A police officer who was hospitalized to undergo repairs to the cardiac pacemaker that had been installed to treat a heart condition which was not compensable could not get benefits for his period of disability from the pacemaker surgery, a Florida appellate court ruled. Ca...Read More
 
 
OSHA Sues Postal Service for Firing Worker who Reported Safety Concerns 07/16/2014
State: MO | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service on behalf of a maintenance employee at the St. Louis Network Distribution Center in Hazelwood, Missouri, who reported unsafe working conditions and suffered reprisals, including false charges of making a terrorist th...Read More
 
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